These were mostly young foreign nationals out on a warm June evening in a vibrant part of Europe’s biggest city. To have their lives cut short in this way during what the coroner called 10 minutes of “high and terrible drama” was truly appalling. It followed the bombing of a pop concert in Manchester and the attack on Westminster Bridge just weeks earlier.

The inquest heard heart-wrenching tributes from the relatives of the dead and will be reminded of the heroism of people who confronted the knife-wielding terrorists and the...